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A pole shift has occurred in the US. In the past, transgressive comedy almost exclusively came out of the left (I'm thinking Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson, J
by leftyted 7y ago
A pole shift has occurred in the US. In the past, transgressive comedy almost exclusively came out of the left (I'm thinking Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson, John Waters, etc). The right, by comparison, was straight-laced.
These days, more and more, transgressive voices are coming from the right. Soph is pretty extreme but I do see the humor in her videos. You're not obligated to laugh, but if you don't see the humor, take a step back and consider that conservatives rarely saw the humor in Bruce, Thompson, or Waters.
- happytoexplain 7y agoEven assuming for academic reasons that the situation is identical in every way, except with left-right political nouns swapped - why is the inverse version bad, requiring that people "take a step back"?
- leftyted 7y ago"Identical in every way" is strong wording that I didn't use. > why is the inverse version bad, requiring that people "take a step back"? What I'm saying is that if you don't see the humor, you're missing something. You don't have to think it's funny. You can think it's "going too far" or "in poor taste". But there is a strange brand of transgressive humor there.
- CyanBird 7y ago>What I'm saying is that if you don't see the humor, you're missing something. There's quite literally no humor on this, the Youtube headquarters have in the past already been targeted by mentally unstable people in a shooting.
- leftyted 7y ago> There's quite literally no humor on this I'm sure more than one person said this about Lenny Bruce, probably during his obscenity trial.
- hnisacesspool 7y agoYes, these two things are equivalent. One is talking about murdering specific people or committing a mass shooting (in a world where stochastic terrorism is more and more common). The other is a guy who got put on trial for saying the word "cocksucker". Completely equivalent. I too am an enlightened centrist.
- belltaco 7y agoWhat percentage of minorities do you think would find this funny compared to the majority?
- leftyted 7y agoI have no idea. But there's an important difference between "finding something funny" (i.e. laughing) and "seeing the humor in something". To put it another way: sometimes I don't laugh at a joke but I can still recognize that it's a joke.
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